~Editilla bites the tongue that feeds it~
It is but a tiny little bone in my heart, the difference between a Man Made Disaster, a Weather Event and Natural Selection.
Oh Well... sorry for Mrs Jacobs, but the Irony here is thicker than blood in the viscous toxic soup left behind after the Corps' levees failed and spilled New Orleans' guts out into the streets for all to see, lament, criticize. Now that was a true to gods gut check.
Indeed, I saw peoples' guts checked, literally rendered with an AK-47 --because those Corps-built levees failed-- not because Katrina missed the city by nearly 30 miles.
Really, Editilla's trying to be nice about this but... Jeez Louie!
It is a bald faced Fact that Katrina did not flood New Orleans, yet this political candidate would have the gall to open their first campaign commercials with a dreadful scene of people walking through Corps-caused floodwater and say:
"When Katrina happened, and you had to leave the city, it was gut check time."Other than ad-word presumption, isn't that like saying:
When automobiles caused the Minnesota Bridge Collapse, and everyone had to find a different route to work, it was Traffic Check Time.Yeah well, maybe for someone watching from a safe distance they might could lump man-made disaster into a carpet bag with natural disaster, but for we on the scene when Katrina came and went such a vicarious view honestly pales in light of the death and destruction that I witnessed wrought by the Corps of Engineers. Yes, Mother Nature kicked ass, but this candidate wouldn't own that opening scene in their commercial without the Corps of Engineers. They could at least show the genteel good manners to offer credit where it is due, a difference that makes a difference.
Frighteningly Stupid Campaign Manager: "Got any Clues?"
Sanguine yet Sharply Chagrined Editilla: "Go Fish Yer'self!"
This actually hurts Editilla, as we initially like Leslie Jacobs for obvious reasons. But I also saw what happened that first week of 8/29/05. People really died, right in front of me.
This really happened --and it has grown to deeply disturb me as a survivor when anyone tries to say that it wasn't man-made engineering failure that did it. If this Candidate does not know why New Orleans flooded what else can she possibly know about insuring that it doesn't happen again?
Yeah, like we'll hea'ya mouf'talkin.
I surely hope this campaign can tweak their marketing model to offer more proof that Leslie Jacobs knows what it means to drown New Orleans. Otherwise... what's the diff ya'know?
Thank Goddess Editilla isn't the only silly'rilla wit'a flea up our bum about this slip'd'rip, this Funky Katrina Shorthand Jive. Whew! Thanks youz, Mz Charolette!
~Stephen Sabludowski on this Mares' Race
Can You Teach an Old Corps New Tricks?~Dan Farber
Photo: shieldfirst.com~The levee failures in New Orleans a few years ago — the picture is to help refresh your recollection in case you’ve forgotten about them —
put the spotlight on some major deficiencies in the operation of the Army Corp of Engineers. According to E&E News, lawmakers are complaining that the Corp has failed to heed legislative mandates for reform:
"Three of the most significant of these programmatic reforms, independent peer review, safety assurance review, and mitigation reforms, became effective upon enactment,” the lawmakers wrote to Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant Army secretary for civil works. “We are extremely concerned that almost two years later, little progress has been made to implement these critical reforms.”
Social Media for Non-Profit,
Case Study: Levees.Org
~Stanford Rosenthal
2 comments:
Good piece on Jacobs, Editilla. I think Jacobs probably agrees with you but was just a bit careless in how she phrased it. But, as you say, that's a pretty important thing to be careless about! And one would hope that she would be more careful about it. Methinks she probably rushed this ad to market without a good editorial review of content. I think it's forgivable if her heart's in the right place; but the carelessness is something to note and watch out for down the road.
Thx for checking out my upchuck on Jacobs, too.
Thanks Huck!
I would be inclined to give Mrs Jacobs the benefit of the doubt had I not already sent her personally a Blitzkrieg of email on this very issue, and one other: Re-Opening Charity Hospital --which she has also (not punted) SPIKED.
I am saddened by the pace of her campaign in addressing these two vital issues to New Orleans, which I see as the Fulcrum of any valid Recovery from the Federal Flood of 8/29/05: Charity Hospital (which held the line during the Corps Engineering Failures) and Dismantling of the Bad Flood Walls (which arguably did not).
By not focusing on these fundamental issues, Mrs Jacobs really doesn't offer much different from the other candidates in the field --except perhaps a Very Well Funded Media/Advertising Campaign.
We don't need our leaders Punting on our Flood Safety any longer.
Mrs. Jacobs reticence falls all the more galling to me given her relationship to the founder of Levees.org, as if the Jacobs campaign is fine with politically using that (Integrity) connection but not acting on it with even a single word for the Cause: Safe Levees. Not a Feaking Word... Yet.
That is really beginning to piss Editilla off.
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